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CEO BWO

Catrin Jung has been CEO of the Federal Association of Offshore Wind Power Operators (BWO) since January 1.1.2019, XNUMX. She heads the Market Development Offshore division at Vattenfall. Here she is responsible for all offshore wind projects up to approval and award. Previously, Ms. Jung held positions in investment strategy and market analysis at Vattenfall.

Director of the Agora Energiewende

Dr. Patrick Graichen has been the director of Agora Energiewende since January 2014. Before that he was Deputy Director. From 2001 to 2012 he worked in the Federal Environment Ministry - initially in the area of ​​international climate policy, from 2004 to 2006 as personal advisor to the State Secretary and from 2007 as head of the energy and climate policy. The Federal Environment Ministry has given Patrick Graichen leave to work at Agora Energiewende. He studied economics and political science and did his doctorate on municipal energy policy at the Interdisciplinary Institute for Environmental Economics at Heidelberg University.

Northland Power Inc.

Treasurer of the BWO

FDP chairwoman in the committee for economy and energy

Deputy leader of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen parliamentary group

Oliver Krischer has been a member of the Greens since 1989 and a member of the German Bundestag since 2009. He studied biology at RWTH Aachen University and then worked for Michaele Husted, Member of the Bundestag, as well as a research assistant in the GREEN parliamentary group in North Rhine-Westphalia. Since 2013 Oliver Krischer has been deputy parliamentary group chairman and political coordinator of working group 2, which deals with issues such as climate, energy and sustainability.

Director General of the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC)

Dr. Brigitte Knopf has been Secretary General at the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC) since 2015. Your areas of responsibility are the strategic direction of the MCC, cooperation with stakeholders and German and European energy and climate policy. Prior to this, the doctor of physics was responsible for setting up and leading the Energy Strategies Europe and Germany (ESED) working group at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) as well as deputy head of the research area Sustainable Solution Strategies.

CEO WindEurope

Giles Dickson has been Chief Executive since 2015 Officer from WindEurope (formerly EWEA). WindEurope is the voice of the European wind industry and, with more than 400 members, represents the entire value chain of onshore and offshore wind energy in Europe. WindEurope is active in the areas of politics and regulation and organizes industrial exhibitions, conferences and workshops. In addition, WindEurope coordinates publicly funded research and development in the field of wind energy. Giles Dickson is also Chair of the ENTSO-E Advisory Board. Before joining WindEurope, he was a British civil servant for 16 years and then headed public affairs at Alstom.

HTW Berlin & co-founder of Scientists For Future

Volker Quaschning has been a professor at the HTW Berlin University of Applied Sciences since 2004 and is the spokesperson for the renewable energies course. He is the co-founder of Scientists For Future. Mr. Quaschning studied electrical engineering at KIT in Karlsruhe, did his doctorate and habilitation at the TU Berlin and worked for five years at DLR in Spain. Mr. Quaschning is the author of several standard books on renewable energies and climate protection, runs an internet portal and a YouTube channel and is a popular speaker and interview partner for the media.

University of Bremen

Dr.-Ing. Silke Eckardt has been a professor at the Bremen University of Applied Sciences since 2009, where she heads the master's degree in “Sustainable Energy and Environmental Systems”. She has been Vice Dean of the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Environment since 2018. Previously, Dr. Ing.Eckardt worked for many years in various positions in the energy and waste management sector. She studied environmental technology at the TH Lübeck and did her doctorate at the TU Dresden.

Alfred Wegener Institute

Dr. rer. nat. Jennifer Dannheim studied biological oceanography at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel. She completed her studies with a doctorate at the University of Bremen and the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research in Bremerhaven.
Since 2010 Dr. rer. nat. Dannheim German delegate in the International Council for Marine Research (ICES) of the Benthosecological Working Group (BEWG). 2013-2018 she chaired the working group 'Marines Benthal and Renewable Energy Development' (WGMBRED) in the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea. She has been the German delegate here since 2019.

Minister for Energy, Infrastructure and Digitization of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania

Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy

Head of Marine Protection NABU

Dr. Kim Cornelius Detloff is a marine biologist and heads marine protection at the NABU Bundesverband, the Naturschutzbund Deutschland eV After graduating, he spent several years at the Institute for Marine Biology on the Italian island of Giglio. From 2006 to 2008 he worked as a campaigner at the International Animal Welfare Fund (IFAW). After a year as a political-scientific advisor at the Bonn Convention (CMS), he now works in the federal office of NABU in Berlin. There he heads the marine protection work area. For more than ten years he has also accompanied the development of offshore wind power in the North and Baltic Seas in this role.

Managing Director SkySails Group GmbH

Directorate-General for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, European Commission

Business Development Manager Northern Europe at Ideol

Ole Stobbe is a trained mechanical engineer and is passionate about the energy transition. In the last 20 years he has worked in various offshore wind technology and management positions in consulting firms, project development companies and EPCI contractors. Since December 2015 he has been supporting Ideol with the goal of bringing floating offshore wind energy to commercial realization.

Chairman of the dena management

Energy policy coordinator of the SPD parliamentary group

Head of Environment & Sustainability Vattenfall

Interface Manager, WTG Package Engineer Parkwind

Manager Large Projects Offshore TenneT